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About the Role
This role focuses on solving complex supply chain and procurement challenges within highly regulated, mission-critical industries, specifically supporting the Defence and Security team. The position involves helping clients improve supply chain performance, resilience, and readiness by addressing issues like strengthening supplier performance, accelerating production, and transforming procurement.
Responsibilities
- Work with Defence organisations, manufacturers and their suppliers to improve supply chain performance, resilience and readiness.
- Help clients understand and manage complex international supply chains and multi-tier supplier networks.
- Develop and implement supply chain, procurement and supplier-management strategies.
- Support clients to strengthen supplier performance, manage supply chain risk and address constraints affecting production and delivery.
- Help organisations improve planning, forecasting, sourcing, inventory, supplier collaboration and operational decision-making.
- Support production ramp-up, manufacturing scale-up and operational readiness programmes.
- Design and deliver supply chain and procurement transformation programmes, from initial analysis through to implementation.
- Use data, analytics and digital technology to improve supply chain visibility and support better decisions.
- Work with senior client stakeholders across commercial, procurement, supply chain, operations, engineering and programme teams.
- Contribute to the continued growth of PA’s Defence Supply Chain business, including developing propositions, supporting business development and sharing expertise with colleagues.
Requirements
- Experience working within complex industrial supply chains in Defence, aerospace, nuclear, energy, oil and gas, manufacturing or similarly regulated sectors.
- Experience in supply chain, procurement, supplier management, planning, operations or a related discipline.
- Experience working with complex supplier ecosystems, international supply chains or global sourcing arrangements.
- A track record of delivering supply chain, procurement or operational improvement programmes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively with clients and adapt experience to new environments and challenges.
- Candidates must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK for certain UK roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.
- Applicants must be British citizens or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years for roles requiring security clearance.
Skills
- Supply chain transformation
- Resilience
- Risk management
- Strategic sourcing
- Supplier development
- Supplier performance improvement
- Supply chain design
- Modelling
- Network optimisation
- Production ramp-up
- Manufacturing scale-up
- Operational readiness programmes
- Digital solutions
- Data analytics
- Consulting
- Client-facing transformation
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Netherlands
- International
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Experienced professional
Education Level
- MCIPS
- CIPS
- APICS/ASCM
- CILT or equivalent professional qualifications
Benefits
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.